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Blog Entry 12 of 45 Random Neural Firings
A data dump of whatever happens to be on my mind at the moment. So fasten your safety belts and clench your buttocks, this is going to be a bumpy ride! I'm a mild-mannered scientist by day, and a raving lunatic at night - and I just might be your neighbor! I grew up (though some say I haven't) in Deer Creek Canyon, in the old Glen Plym Ranch homestead next to What's now known as Deer Creek Mesa. Weekdays I commute to the University of Denver, where I work in atmospheric physics. Weekends I mostly spend trying to remodel the old homestead without ruining its historic character. Seeing as it's made of stone, that would actually be hard to do. Why I'm here, I'm not really sure... To find out more than you probably ever wanted to know about me, visit my (sadly outdated) web page at http://www.du.edu/~kmurcray

Resurrect Two Forks Dam!
Contributed by: Kevin Murcray   on 3/28/2006

And while we're at it, Do Not conserve water! Why? because if we do, they will think we don't need as much, and they will cut all of our water allotments so that they can sell more water taps and bring in more people! Scary thought, huh?

Do you know what else is getting scary? Google. Google is getting too smart! I type in "map leadville", right up top it gives me three maps of Leadville. I type in "image bobcat", I get three pictures of bobcats (the little wild kitties, not the little bulldozers). If I click on "images", and then enter "Kevin Murcray", it pulls up a picture of me working out at the ARM site in Oklahoma. I type in my little brother's phone number, it spits back out his name and address. I click on "local" and enter my ICBM coordinates: 39 32 54.45n 105 08 14.2w, and it pulls up a map of part of Deer Creek Mesa with a nice shiny red marker pointing right at my house! If I type in my social security number, it just spits back a four-digit negative number - thankfully! If it ever spits back anything related to me, I'll freak!

Speaking of scary, I think it's scary how W. Bruce Cameron can write a whole column on ear wax. All he has to do is see some article on ear wax research, and he's off and going for a thousand words - how can I compete with a man like that?!

Wanna know what's truly scary? Working in my cellar! Other house have nice concrete basements, I have a nice dirt floored cellar. Or mud-floored, when something breaks. It's spooky down there, so spooky that my contractor won't work down there unless I'm there to guard his back against the cellar monsters....

Truly frightening is the vast amount of junk my mom collected over the years. The barn was full of old doors, chairs, tables, etc, I counted eleven dressers in the house at one time, and here she was calling me a pack rat! The dressers I can at least understand - you can store stuff in them. What I can't understand is why I have three antique claw-footed bathtubs in the barn...

You may wonder why I'm jumping around and babbling so much. Well, that's what random neural firing is. It's usually not truely random though, as one thought is usually triggered by another, even if the relation is so vague as to be undeterminable. It seems to happen most often when I make the coffee...

So do I really want to resurrect the Two Forks Dam project? No, not really! I'm just trying to sucker you all into reading my blog entries. I figure if I do well enough here, maybe someone out there will offer me my own talk show. Or something.




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Kevin Murcray

Littleton , CO

Kevin Murcray has posted 45 blog entries and 54 comments since joining on 2/27/2006. Kevin Murcray 's average blog rating is 4.96.
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